NJ Department of Education (DOE)

Finally, Some Unbiased Educational Statistics on Newark Public Schools

Much of the analysis of the public education system in Newark feels unreliable;  everyone, it seems, has an agenda. “New…

10 years ago

Pearson, PARCC, and the N.J. D.O.E.

Amid all the mythology about PARCC tests – teachers will  be fired! students won’t graduate! the tests cost too much!…

10 years ago

Throw-Back Tuesday: N.J. Was Looking At Computer-Based Assessments Fifteen Years Ago

Fifteen years ago the N.J. School Boards Association reported on “new challenges” to the state’s public schools. The State had…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: Contrary to Recent Reports, Camden Isn’t Using a “Graduation Loophole”

It starts here:On Monday the Courier-Post asserted that Camden Public Schools conceals an “eye-popping” and “unique” percentage of high school…

10 years ago

Camden Update: “Our Students Have the Potential to Change the World”

I graduated from Camden schools, and the quality of the education my children were getting has been far below what…

10 years ago

What’s Wrong with New Jersey’s Charter School Law?

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released its sixth annual report this week that ranks state charter laws. (See…

10 years ago

Big Ed Reform News in N.J.: Appellate Court Denies Education Law Center and Save Our Schools-NJ’s Argument that Successful Charter Schools Can’t Expand

The big education reform news in New Jersey yesterday was the release of an Appellate Court ruling in litigation pressed…

10 years ago

N.J. Charter School Students “Demonstrate Growth” for Five Consecutive Years

As New Jersey’s latest standardized test scores come out slowly from the State, the N.J. Charter School Association issued a…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: N.J.’s Teacher Unions: Implosion, Irrelevance, or Evolution?

It starts here:Last Thursday, the New Jersey Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s new charter school bill.…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: N.J.’s Sickly, Restrictive Charter School Law

It starts here:Last week the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) published a new study, "The Health of the…

10 years ago